The Astros have $800,000 in total payroll commitments vs $210,130,953 for the dodgers

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Right now after 5 years of neglect by Drayton Maclane.. Give front office some time to rebuild from the ground up. The Astro's have a very large market to support the team.. They will be a factor at some point in near future..

RT @JeffPassan: Dodgers have $210,130,953 in commitments for players on their roster. The Astros have $800,000"
Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan
For those wondering if that's real, here is Astros' current balance sheet: http://bit.ly/XE4gWD . Only Phil Humber, at $800K, under contract

1. MLB has the greatest parity of any other sport by a huge margin
2. MLB is better off having teams like the Yankees and Dodgers go nuts adding payroll like they do.
3. the MLB is far better off economically by allowing a free market to exist
4. We have revenue sharing and a luxury tax, if you want to fix anything, fix those.
5. The Marlins trade happened because the MLB doesn't force NTC, when they probably should for all veterans of so many years.
6. You would think after the several recent years of teams doing awesome with no payrolls, you would think this topic would stop getting brought up. The A's, O's, Rays, Reds....these are small payroll teams, and they do well.
7. The players have a right to earn as much money as they can, considering their path to success is so long, and they have so little control over what happens to them.
8. If you are mad at anybody. Don't be made at the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox. Be mad at the bad organizations who don't spend money and collect revenue sharing.
9....and this is the biggest one.

Spending does not equate to winning in baseball, so imposing an arbitrary spending figure to force teams to carry a payroll amount and limiting what they can and can't spend will not help teams. The best players will still go to teams like the Yankees because they want to win. Not because they get paid the most. A salary cap is nothing short of an artificial financial threshold where you are passing dollars from the players to the owners and taking leverage away from the players.